GE 66: IDIOMS AND PHRASES-5

Using idioms and phrases enhances the quality of your spoken as well as written English and your language looks elegant and eloquent. In essay writing contests, it fetches you good score and keeps you a head of others.

An idiom is a  group of words that has a special meaning that is different  from the ordinary meaning of each separate word.( Source: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English)

A phrase is a group of words that together have a particular meaning, especially when they express the meaning well in a few words. .( Source: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English)

Practice ten question on idioms and phrases.

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. – H.Jackson Brown Jr

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.

– H.Jackson Brown Jr

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Directions: Each of the following idioms is followed by four meanings.Indicate which is correct.

#1. A lion's share

a share taken by the king

a share taken by the king

non-vegetarian food

non-vegetarian food

a major share

a major share

a share which gives you profits in the stock market

a share which gives you profits in the stock market

#2. Flying colours

balloons

balloons

day dreams

day dreams

brilliant success

brilliant success

having colour blindness

having colour blindness

#3. Jump to a conclusion

jumping after success

jumping after success

getting angry easily

getting angry easily

take a decision in a hurry

take a decision in a hurry

get confused

get confused

#4. Make a fool of one self

to comment at others

to comment at others

behave like a fool

behave like a fool

to make others fool

to make others fool

behave in an innocent way

behave in an innocent way

#5. Magnum Opus

nice opportunity

nice opportunity

A major obstacle

A major obstacle

Master Piece

Master Piece

super power

super power

#6. Milk of human kindness

milk made from powder

milk made from powder

innocent man

innocent man

natural kindness

natural kindness

cruel and wicked mentality

cruel and wicked mentality

#7. of one's head

treating with great care

treating with great care

having lot of thoughts and confusion

having lot of thoughts and confusion

orignal idea

orignal idea

feeling crazed

feeling crazed

#8. Never say die

kill ruthlessly

kill ruthlessly

never give up hope or courage

never give up hope or courage

live long happily

live long happily

living with morbid diseases

living with morbid diseases

#9. Out and out

to give clear out line

to give clear out line

not related to

not related to

enitely

enitely

to guard with double fencing

to guard with double fencing

#10. Pay lip service

to use extra lipstic

to use extra lipstic

to talk rudely

to talk rudely

Insincere regrets expressed

Insincere regrets expressed

to murmur frequently

to murmur frequently

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